White middle class feminists continue the practice of co-opting

the experiences of poor and people of color (PoC) that is. This insidious ploy to gain street cred is nauseating at best and infuriating at worst. White middle class feminists want to be relatable, they want a cause to perpetuate and so many of them feel that they only can do this by co-opting the experiences of other people as their own. Let me qualify that. I should say cis-gendered middle class white feminists do this. They take the fact that they may have grown up around impoverished people as evidence that THEY understand poverty and some even go so far as to claim they were poor growing up too. Some cite having grown up in notorious cities to show they get inner city crime while failing to point out that they lived in the "nice" part of town where drive-bys were unheard of. Fighting patriarchy on their front isn't enough for them; they have try to fight the battles of POC too in the patronizing manner because they get you. They get IT. Because white cis gendered middle class feminists are second to white men as the masters of the universe. God save me from white mainstream feminism.